Congress went berserk at the thought of the USA even bidding for oil contracts.
Thank them for our being shut out of the Iraqi oil way back them.
We were told by Bush and our leaders, were we not? at the beginning of the war when the costs were discussed that we would be paid back from Iraqi oil by the ever greatful Iraqi whose pipelines we were to protect...then never to hear about it again.
China and England now are to gain.